Corporate Capsules - Tuesday Talk. Looking at Appreciation at the workplace working for and against productivity.

Appreciation - It Starts With You - 6th May 2014

How leaders can strategically use their own vulnerability to build genuine team cohesion. From www.corporatecapsules.com

The Power of Vulnerability - 13 May 2014

CORPORATE CAPSULES: Can I Persuade You? - February 7, 2012

A quick look at how to deal with the dynamics of brainstorming - different people, different personalities, different backgrounds, different agendas, different levels of authority.

CORPORATE CAPSULES - Brainstorming Stormed - 9 October 2012

You need to train yourself to see peripherally and notice trends. By becoming people who are watching, you will be able to enhance the value that you bring to your companies so that you can be a blessing to the companies.

CORPORATE CAPSULES - From The Corner Of My Eye - 6 Nov 2012

So, this morning I started with intent. What kind of intent do you have? Is it intent to get up, not just play safe or be careful, but to say, “What is that thing that I want to do that is far bigger than all the tangible things that I see around, but which if I strategically put to use, I can create a huge Big Hairy Audacious Goal.”

Corporate Capsules - Strategic Intent - 23 Oct 2012

Emily Post defines etiquette as, “Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette. It is not some rigid code of manners. It’s simply how persons’ lives touch one another and how they ought to behave in that particular situation.” So she put together a book that has been the trademark book on Etiquette for almost a century. Even though she passed away in 1959, her family has taken over. Today, her granddaughter-in-law Peggy Post continues to do wonderful work in this whole area, taking what her grandmother-in-law wrote many years ago, making it relevant even today in the different spheres that we have.

Corporate Capsules -  Allow Me To Introduce You - 20 November 2012

by Dr. Cecil Clements (4th December 2012)

I don’t know how many of you make mistakes. You’re probably shaking your heads and saying, “I’m there most of the time,” and I would agree with you. We all make mistakes. Yet, sometimes we’re very harsh on ourselves.

I remember learning the piano a few years back. As I would play and make a mistake, I would stop and freeze. My piano instructor would look at me and say, “What’s going on? It’s just a mistake. Pick up and go.” But each time I would be so harsh on myself. She used to actually smile when I made the mistake because she found it so funny that I was taking it all so seriously. But I have a difficult time, as I know you all do as well, when I make my own mistakes.

Corporate Capsule: Making Mistakes - 4 Dec 2012

As I’ve been looking at the year that’s running away from us, invariably one starts to think about the months that have gone by and along with that comes some amount of, “Oh, I wish I had done that.” Disappointments tend to creep in, resolutions begin to pop their heads up and say, “This is what you decided at the beginning of the year” and maybe it has or has not been kept.

I was reading an article by Daniel Gulati who says, ‘Disappointment Doesn’t Discriminate’. How true! Whether you are a CEO or just starting out in the corporate world, whether you are male or female, whether you are a graduate or not, rich or poor – it really doesn’t matter. Disappointment comes to all of us. And if we are just disappointed and are then able to move on, it’s fine. But what typically happens with disappointment is that it leads to regrets.

Corporate Capsules: If Only - 18 Dec 2012

by Dr. Cecil Clements (8th January 2013)

Welcome to the New Year 2013! It’s 8 days into the New Year and as I looked at the days that have gone by, I thought how on the 1st and 2nd, we were so excited about the New Year. 4 or 5 days later, it’s almost business as usual; back to the usual things that happen in our lives. A lot of things haven’t changed – we’re still in the same place, in the same company, we’re still doing the same job, still have the same profile. All that has really changed is that 2012 has given way to 2013.

I wondered what I could share with each one of you who have taken the trouble to be on this call. There is a huge difference between what we would like to do and what we end up doing – sometimes it’s almost a gulf. I remember in my early days when I was just coming out of school, doing well as I passed out of the 11th grade. I thought that it would carry me through my pre-University. I fooled around at that time, didn’t attend classes, was all over the place. I paid for it because I failed my pre-University. I had ambitions to join the NDA, get into the Air Force. All of that went down the drain with that failure.

Read more - http://corporatecapsule.blogspot.in/2013/01/making-course-corrections.html